Life plans and indigenous politics in the Peruvian Amazon

Authors

  • Oscar Espinosa Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
    Es doctor en Antropología por la New School for Social Research de New York. Trabaja como profesor asociado en el Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), donde ha sido coordinador de la sección de Antropología. Como investigador, se especializa en la Amazonía peruana, principalmente en los pueblos asháninka y shipibo-konibo. Entre sus publicaciones recientes se cuentan La Chiesa Cattolica e le popolazioni indigene dell’Amazzonia Peruviana: cambiamenti e persistenze nei secoli XX e XXI (2014); Movimiento indígena y justicia comunitaria en el Perú (2013); La violencia y lahistoria asháninka: de Juan Santos Atahualpa a Sendero Luminoso (2012); To Be Shipibo Nowadays: The Shipibo-Konibo Youth Organizations as Strategy for Dealing with Cultural Change in the Peruvian Amazon Region (2012); El sistema de la cuota electoral indígena en la Amazonía: problemas y limitaciones (2012). Correo electrónico: oespinosa@pucp.edu.pe

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201401.007

Keywords:

Amazonia, indigenous politics, development, planning, indigenous organizations, Ashaninka, Achuar, Peru

Abstract

In this article the political dimension of the «planes de vida indígena» (indigenous life plans) are discussed in three cases from the Peruvian Amazon region. In these cases, the «planes de vida» have fulfilled a role in the process of indigenous self-government or in the negotiation of the indigenous agenda vis-à-vis the State. The three cases studied are those of the Achuar people, an Ashaninka local organization – the Central Asháninka del Río Ene (CARE) – and the case of AIDESEP, the national-level indigenous organization for the Amazon region in Peru.

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Published

2014-07-17

How to Cite

Espinosa, O. (2014). Life plans and indigenous politics in the Peruvian Amazon. Anthropologica Del Departamento De Ciencias Sociales, 32(32), 87–114. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201401.007

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 32 (2014): Contemporary Political Anthropology in Western Amazon

Section

Contemporary political anthropology in the Western Amazon